Jon Stewart Spots Self in Trump's Deleted AI Image

Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, expressed shock and humor during Monday's episode after spotting his own likeness in an AI-generated image that President Donald Trump had posted and later deleted from Truth Social. The image, shared late Sunday, showed Trump dressed in white robes with a red sash, resembling Jesus Christ as he extended a hand over a frail, bedridden man in what appeared to be a healing gesture. The background featured American flags, bald eagles, fighter jets, and a horned winged figure in the sky. Stewart paused the broadcast, zoomed in on the patient, and quipped, "Oh my God. What, the guy in the bed... Am I okay?" He added, "What the f***?! I mean, look, I know I don't have the vigor and spunk of my MTV days. But I didn't know we were here already. I didn't realize my look had reached leper territory."

The post came amid Trump's public criticism of Pope Leo XIV, whom he accused on Truth Social of being weak on crime and foreign policy following the pontiff's Easter message calling for global peace during the ongoing U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran. Trump deleted the image after it faced backlash from some conservatives who deemed it blasphemous. When...